Just where in the Charleston area might you have seen this building with the great flower boxes? Send your guess to: editor@charlestoncurrents.com. And don’t forget to include your name and the town in which you live.
Our previous Mystery Photo
Our Oct. 21 mystery, “Big, white building” showed Colleton County’s courthouse in Walterboro.
Congratulations to those who guessed correctly: George Graf of Palmyra, Va.; Jim McMahan, Neal Kinard and Stephen Yetman, all of Charleston; Bill Segars of Hartsville; Chris Brooks of Mount Pleasant; Jay Altman of Columbia; Allan Peel of San Antonio, Texas; Marnie Huger of Richmond, Va.; and Charlie Morrison of James Island.
Graf provided this context: “The design of the courthouse is attributed to the architect Robert Mills. Robert Mills (1781–1855), a South Carolina architect known for designing both the first Washington Monument, located in Baltimore, Maryland, as well as the better-known monument to the first president in the nation’s capital, Washington, D.C. He is sometimes said to be the first native-born American to be professionally trained as an architect.”
Segars added, “Even though it has had many additions and renovations completed on it, the building still holds many of Mills’ trademark design features such as fireproof brick construction covered with stucco and a Greek Revival style of appearance. It was listed in the National Register on May 14, 1971.”
- Send us a mystery: If you have a photo that you believe will stump readers, send it along (but make sure to tell us what it is because it may stump us too!) Send it along to editor@charlestoncurrents.com.
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